Died in USA the first soldier fell ill with the coronavirus

In the United States, the first recorded death of a soldier, infected with a coronavirus. As the press service of the National guard of the United States, the captain of the national guard died over the weekend.According to the report, captain Douglas Lynn Hickok, medical assistant, died Saturday in Pennsylvania after he was hospitalized on March 21, after confirmation of infection by coronavirus.

I am deeply saddened by the death of the army captain Douglas Lynn Hickok, physician assistant and national guard of the state of new Jersey, related COVID-19. We are all in the National guard are grateful for his service to our nation as a citizen and as a soldier

- said the chief of the Bureau of the National guard General Joseph Lengyel.My condolences also expressed the Pentagon chief mark Esper.Recall that the United States ranks first in the world in the number infected with the novel coronavirus. According to the Johns Hopkins University, leading the official statistics for the disease, only in the USA officially recorded cases - 163,5 thousand people dead - more than 3 thousand, recovered to 5.9 thousand people. The highest number of deaths recorded in the States of new York and new Jersey.In second place is Italy, where there are more than 101,7 confirmed cases. Followed by Spain with almost 88 thousand infected.

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